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Regional:
Geographically and politically the world is divided into several continents and regions.
We have Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Polar region, Caribbean countries, Middle East.
In Asia we have leading countries like India, Iran, China, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, North Korea, South Korea, Bahrain, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia, Cambodia etc.
India:
India emerged as an independent nation in 1947 coming out of the British colonial raj. India became a republic country giving itself a written constitution in 1950 with Dr Rajendra Prasad becoming first President and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister. The country also elevated Mahatma Gandhi as the ‘father of the nation’ and called him Bapuji.
It is the 7th largest countryand the world’s largest democracy. India also has a reputation of growing very fast in terms of population explosions and is now world second most populous nation. The family planning is officially prescribed but it ahs not yielded much results. The forced sterilization has forced lot of controversies during Emergency in 1970s under Indira Gandhi regime. However, in many health programs it has come a long way but still has abundant shortfall in infrastructure like power, good roads etc.
With the Indian Ocean in the south, it alsa as Arabian sea in west, Bay of Bengal in east and on the north it is encompassed by the great mountain Himalayas. River ganges is the most talked about river though Jamuna has made news for wrong reasons and pollution.
The primary religion of the people is Hinduism though a basically liberal society and other communities have well flourished here.
Pakistan:
Among other Asian countries, Pakistan is a key nation – both politically and from historical point of view. Carved out of India in 1947, Pakistan declared itself independent on 14th August a day before India. But the history of two nations since then has been marked by tales and gory tales of love and hate relationship. There have been three wars and the more recent 1999 conflict is called Kargil conflict. The trouble was sparked off following Pakistani army regulars entering Kargil region in Kashmir in the guise of Kashmiri insurgents. The Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, then army chief is said to have master minded the movement of troops.
Bangladesh:
Bangladesh is the third country resulted ultimately of India;s partition. Pakistan could not preserve Bangaldesh as its eastern wing after a revolutionary fight for Sonar Bangla by Bangladeshis. India did a lot for the liberation of Bangladesh and save the ‘Sonar Bangla’ from being raped by Pakistani forces.
But talking in diplomatic terms and also strategically, did India gain anything substantial? Is not Bangladesh still a problem area vis-à-vis the support it lends to Indian insurgent groups?
Well, to reply in negative would be utter foolishness. But at the same time the sentiment India has been showing while associating with its eastern neighbour has not been reciprocated in the same spirit always.
In 1996, when Bangladesh celebrated 25 years of its independence, while a smiling Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma read out a goodwill message going out of the way in Bangla, there was no official ‘Thank You’ from Dhaka.
In fact, there has been more than one occasion when Bangladesh, albeit under unfriendly regime, has apparently enjoyed seeing us bleed, especially on the northeast front. Bangladeshi soil has been used by most northeastern outfits to keep nexus with ISI and to use the land to set up hideouts once crackdown is launched this side.
Meiteis, Mizos and Nagas had connections in that country since East Pakistan days.
Manipuri insurgents got initial base and help from Bangladesh in Sylhet.
The People’s Liberation of Army (PLA) of Manipur revived its political
Europe:
Of the European countries those are important include France, Italy, Germany, Poland, England (UK), Belgium, Hungary, Romania. The countries in this continent wanted to show their economic and political mite by forming the European Union in 1993. It has 27 countries as members and takes pride in having 500 million citizens under it. It also generates about 30 percent of world’s gross domestic product.
United States:
US is an important country globally and from Indian point of view. The new found bonhomie between India and US is a world wide attention and often also sparks off major political controversies in both the countries.
But there are other sides well. US is notoriously famous in India for its intelligence network – under irreplaceable CIA.
History is living witness that author of the famous book ‘A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA’ Duane Claridge had dedicated a chapter on his stint in the subcontinent ‘India: No Tomorrow 1960-64’. Claridge was perhaps not the only agent who cut his teeth in Indian soil as the CIA man in New Delhi or Madras (Chennai) in the 1960s.
“The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has for long been active in the north eastern region. Its agents were directed to study social tension and how to use them for the purpose of destabilising the situation in underdeveloped countries,” wrote Marxist doyen P Ramamurti in 1979.(‘Real Face of the Assam Agitation’ published by CPI (M).
According to Ramamurti and also some other old timers – US launched its covert operation code named ‘Project Brahmaputra’. A circular, prepared in the name of the project had declared rather ominously: “With the Agreement of the State Department, the Special Operation Research Office of the George Washington University has asked the US outfit (guess what? – author) in India for help.” Ramamurti also wrote “In the 1950s, the noted American writer S T Harrison in his book ‘India – the Most Dangerous Decades’ predicted the disintegration of India and among other things referred to the Assamese linguistic fanaticism”. Ramamurti’s following words also proved both prophetic and mind boggling, “Dr Lee Rose, an American national of Chinese origin and Director of the Himalayan Countries’ Project, University of California and the author of ‘Nepal –Strategy for Survival’ had stated that a confederation of the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, with Nepal as the nucleus could become a reality in conditions of extreme insurgency in north eastern India. This is not an innocent statement or an academic study”.
Interestingly again, contrary to modern day Marxists’ jingoism against “barbarism” of Hindutva or the Sangh Parivar, Ramamurti wrote “Christian missions have well-known and close links with the Mizo National Front, the Naga underground etc. They have been getting huge funds in the name of educational and philanthropic activities from the USA routed through many sources”. Asserting that “it is well known that western imperialist agencies operate through certain Christian missionaries and missions”, the CPI (M) strongman wrote “In 1978, Dr R Kunvile, an associate of the World Baptist Alliance, in a pamphlet under the title ‘Church grows through the people’s movement’ clearly enjoined upon the missionary societies to involve themselves in these secessionist movements for the growth of Christianity. A new edition of the 18th century dictum – the church precedes the Empire”.
Ramamurti further claimed that the US Embassy in India too “has been evincing extra-ordinary interest in the north-eastern region”. A keen observer of things that Ramamurti was known for also wondered whether a popular US magazine was just making a mistake when it printed a map showing Assam outside India. “The preparatory phase of the Assam agitation, its subsequent development, the slogans put forward by the agitators fit it neatly with the whole plan of ‘Project Brahmaputra’. “The guiding hand and its executors are unmistakable. Their aim is secession,” he wrote.
Once a former Foreign Secretary, J N Dixit (Mani), who later became Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s National Security Advisor, had also spoken about involvement of some churches in such questionable role. And secondly, it will be unwise not to mention about the past as the focus is lately on new high in relations between the two countries. As the romance in ties between New Delhi and Washington has come to stay as an almost permanent feature, should India really write off its history of problems in several strategic areas created and fomented probably by the once-notorious “foreign hand”?
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